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The Surgical and Interventional Sciences Program of McGill and of the RI-MUHC bring you a series of seminars online. This event takes place via Zoom on Tuesday afternoons from 1pm to 2:30pm to present the research of eminent speakers. At the same time, these seminars give students an opportunity to present their own preliminary data and the possibility to attend a short discussion session with specialists in the field.

We have over 50 researchers and 220 graduate students who work on outcomes, basic science and clinical research. Our main concentrations are in cardiac and vascular, general surgery, orthopedics, plastics, urology and thoracic.

Special thanks to Muskan Alad, the moderator for student presentations.

Past Seminar Series

Fall 2024 & Winter 2025

Date	Speaker	Seminar Title
WINTER 2025
April 8, 2025	Dr. Rhima Coleman	"Autonomous RUNX2 Suppression in Engineered Cartilage"
April 1, 2025	Dr. Kharma C. Foucher	"Person-Centered Biomechanics Approaches to Improve Physical Activity and Reduce Fall Risk in People with Osteoarthritis"
March 25, 2025	Tyler Lalonde Martin Couillard	"Career growth in Startups"
March 18, 2025	Christine Le Maitre, BSc (Hons). PGCert, FHEA, PhD Professor of Musculoskeletal Cell Biology and Tissue Regeneration, Department of Oncology and Metabolism Co-leader of the Osteoarthritis and Disc research group in the Division of Clinical Medicine Medical School at the University of Sheffield	"Understanding Pathogenesis of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Osteoarthritis to develop new therapeutic approaches"
February 25, 2025	Trafford Crump, PhD Associate Professor Associate Member, Oncology	"Advancing Surgical Oncology Through Personalized Metrics"
February 18, 2025	Dr. Reitan Ribeiro Attending Gynecologic Oncologist and Surgical Oncologist, MUHC Assistant Professor, Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Oncology, McGill University	"Surgical Innovation in Cancer Treatment"
February 11, 2025	Santiago Márquez Fosser MD, MSc Physician and Clinical Informatics Specialist, RI-MUHC Consultant at MUHC Infocentre Group	"Leveraging MUHC data and Synthetic data"
February 4, 2025	Graham Pitcher, PhD Cellular and systems electrophysiologist, Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto	"Synapse-specific diversity of distinct postsynaptic GluN2 subtypes defines transmission strength in spinal lamina I"
January 28, 2025	Dae-Kyum Kim, PhD Assistant Professor Division of Thoracic and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, McGill University Junior Scientist, Cancer Research Program, RI MUHC	"Identification of therapeutic resistance drivers using a novel proteome-wide overexpression screening approach (BOGO)"
Fall 2024
December 3, 2024	Francis Lin, PhD Health Logic Professor in Chip Innovation Professor in Physics & Astronomy, Immunology and Biological Science, University of Manitoba Past Chair, Division of Physics in Medicine and Biology, Canadian Association of Physicists	"Toward Automated Passive Flow Microfluidics for Biomedical Applications"
November 26, 2024	Svenja Illien-Junger, PhD (they/them) Assistant Professor Emory Musculoskeletal Research Center Department of Orthopaedics Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Emory School of Medicine & Georgia Institute of Technology	"The intervertebral disc biology during health and disease"
November 19, 2024	James Mehta, B.Eng, MBA Technology Transfer Manager Innovation + Partnerships McGill University \| Office of the Vice-Principle (Research & Innovation)	"Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at McGill"
November 12, 2024	Prof. Martin Stoddard, PhD, FRSB, FIOR Principle Investigator Program Leader Regenerative Orthopaedics Progenitor Cell Biology and Mechanoregulation Focus Area AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland	"Mechanical Activation of TGF: Driving MSC chondrogenesis by tribology"
October 29, 2024	Geraldine Merle, PhD Associate Professor Department of Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montreal	"Exploring new frontiers in bone healing and patient outcomes beyond autografts"
October 22, 2024	Yiming Xiao Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Software Engineering Concordia University Research Chair in Intuitive and Intelligent Surgical Technologies Member of the Applied AI Institute and the School of Health at Concordia FRQS Junior 1 Research Scholar	"Human-centered designs for the next generation of surgical AI and virtual reality tools"
October 8, 2024	Amanda Wheatley Liaison Librarian for Management, Business, and Entrepreneurship Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the McGill Libraries. Project Manager McGill Library’s website design Sandy Hervieux Head of the Nahum Gelber Law Library Virtual Reference Coordinator at the McGill Libraries	"Using AI Tools for Research"
October 1, 2024	John S. Sampalis M.Sc., PhD., FACE, FAHA Epidemiologist Professor of Surgery and Medicine at McGill University and University of Montreal Founder and CEO of JSS Medical Research founded in 1997	"Advanced Statistical Methods in Surgical Research: Addressing Missing Data, Survival Analysis, and Adaptive Trial Designs"
September 24, 2024	Prisca Bustamante, PhD: Mitacs and Jan Walker	Funding Opportunities

Contacts

Laura Epure
surgicalresearch.med [at] mcgill.ca

Micha Huynh
gradstudies2.surgery [at] mcgill.ca

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Fall 2024 & Winter 2025

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